Indians, Merchants, and Markets: A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish-Indian Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca, 1750-1821

by Jeremy Baskes

Traditional historiography describes the repartimiento de mercanc as as a forced system of production and consumption in which officials of the Spanish crown compelled Mexican Indians to produce goods marketable in the Spanish economy and to purchase expensive and undesired Spanish products. The author challenges this conventional portrayal of Indian-Spanish economic relations by arguing that Indian market behavior was economically rational...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804735123
• ISBN13: 9780804735124
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"